The Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) fully supports data sharing and was the first UK
funding body to adopt a formal data sharing policy. ESRC award
holders are contractually required to offer all created research
data to the Economic and Social Data Service, for archiving and
dissemination by the UK Data Archive.

Many other funders such as the British Academy, the Natural
Environment Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the
BBSRC and the Wellcome Trust have similar data policies that
mandate or encourage researchers to share data.

Journals and publishers increasingly require data that form the
basis for publications to be shared or deposited within an
accessible database or repository.

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